#OrlandoStrong — The Weekly reFRESH

June 17, 2016

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Photo via AFP Photo/Brendan SmialowskiEdited by Mara Meyers

This week we’re both mourning and reading: about the depth of gay bars as sacred spaces, the simultaneous consumption and destruction of Black men in America, and why Hillary Clinton must grow even louder in discussions about race.

Our country has allowed “impulse massacres to become a continual and permanent fact of American life.” The answer is simple, if you don’t want mass murderers to feel empowered to kill, stop making access to guns so easy.

The recent mass shooting in Orlando reminds us that the threat of terror is very real and extremely unpredictable. But Mohamed Ali asks us to not live in terror because terrorists capitalize on our fear.

Democrats have a history of ignoring race. But because the Black vote is so important — and because Donald Trump is such a loud bigot —Jamil Smith thinks that Hillary Clinton’s talk about race should grow even louder.

The Clinton-Sanders race underscored a split in the Democratic Party for various reasons: from race to gender, class and ideology. So why the split, and what makes it important? This roundtable discussion delves into the answers, with Mychal Denzel Smith, Jill Filipovic, David Simon, and more.